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Re:FDA Approves First Medication to Reduce Allergic Reaction... by k_process on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:39AM (#39508882)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/ "Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance"

Here, we propose that glyphosate is the most important causal factor in this [celiac disease and gluten intolerance] epidemic.

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Re:FDA Approves First Medication to Reduce Allergic Reaction... by refurb on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:00AM (#39509862)
Did you read the paper? My guess is no.

Classic HN, references a paper as if the conclusions are fact and all references are equivalent.

This is a paper where the authors did no experiments of their own, just put forth a hypotheses.

The lead author is an “independent scientist”.

Suffice to say I’d be very suspect of the conclusions drawn.

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Re:FDA Approves First Medication to Reduce Allergic Reaction... by bigbillheck on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:56AM (#39511932)
> The lead author is an “independent scientist”.

The other one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff

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Re:FDA Approves First Medication to Reduce Allergic Reaction... by refurb on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:38AM (#39523307)
Ooph…

“In 2011, she began publishing controversial papers in low-impact, open access journals on biology and medical topics; the articles have received "heated objections from experts in almost every field she's delved into,"”

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Re:FDA Approves First Medication to Reduce Allergic Reaction... by dahart on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:28AM (#39512366)
Don’t forget this awesome quote: “However, a recent paper (Samsel & Seneff, 2013), argued that glyphosate may be a key contributor to the obesity epidemic and the autism epidemic in the United States, as well as to several other diseases and conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, infertility, depression, and cancer.”

It’s causing all the bad things? That would be amazing if true, unfortunately it sounds unlikely (chiropractic comes to mind) and the rest of the science world doesn’t believe these authors.

If the graphs in the paper seem compelling, make sure to spend some time here: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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